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Stack or trash? Quality assessment of virtual slides

Authors: David Ameisen, Christophe Deroulers, Valérie Perrier, Jean-Baptiste Yunès, Fatiha Bouhidel, Maxime Battistella, Luc Legrès, Anne Janin, Philippe Bertheau

Published in: Diagnostic Pathology | Special Issue 1/2013

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Since microscopic slides can now be automatically digitized and integrated in the clinical workflow, quality assessment of these Whole Slide Images (WSI) has become a crucial issue. At this time, the quality of a WSI is verified a posteriori by a technician or by a pathologist. There is however a significant amount of WSI that are too insufficient in quality (blurred, bad colors, poor contrast.) to be used for diagnoses. These slides have then to be scanned again with delay thus slowing down the diagnostic workflow. …

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Title: Stack or trash? Quality assessment of virtual slides
Authors: David Ameisen
Christophe Deroulers
Valérie Perrier
Jean-Baptiste Yunès
Fatiha Bouhidel
Maxime Battistella
Luc Legrès
Anne Janin
Philippe Bertheau
Publication date: 01-09-2013
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Diagnostic Pathology / Issue Special Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1746-1596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-8-S1-S23

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